Vessels of Color and Light

I am looking forward to the pleasure of your company at Gallery Seven this Saturday, June 4th from 7-9 PM.

Nick Johnson and Kelli Costa have established a very fine framing service and an exceptional gallery. Due to their experience in the arts; Kelli as an assistant to the Lee Gallery in Winchester and Nick as an instructor for the New England School of Photography their reputation as extraordinary gallerists is now well recognized throughout the arts community. It is my honor to be showing in this two person show,along with B. Glee Lucas in Vessels of Color and Light through June 18th. I Kelli expresses and understands the art as much as any artist who has created it. And so I would like to share with you her write up on this show because I couldnt have said it better myself.

In the exhibition Vessels of Color and Light painters Marian Dioguardi and B. Glee Lucas paint images of everyday objects, but they portray the light interacting with the subject matter in very different ways. In Lucas’s work we see the translucent quality of wine glasses and glassware as the light passes through them. The glasses are always in the foreground still and undisturbed. Some empty, some half full, but always drawing the viewer’s eye through them to the background making one aware of the weightlessness of light.

In contrast, Dioguardi’s paintings of teacups and bowls celebrate the solidity and mass of the object. She uses bold and vibrant colors with subtle shadowing around the edges. There are large solitary teacups atop saucers which are strikingly powerful. Then there are stacks of teacups on saucers and towering images of bowls nestled together. All appearing to be on the verge of toppling over at any moment.

Dioguardi’s use of light emphasizes the weight and volume of the object. While Lucas’s work is about the light that describes the object. In the end, both of these artists create work that surpasses the content in the painting. It’s more about the harmony, form and light in front of us then it is about the subject matter itself.